combat ship

Questions about combat ship

What does combat ship mean?

combat ship means "a government ship that is available for waging war".

What is another word for combat ship?

Close synonyms include warship, war vessel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combat ship a common word?

combat ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.